Hello, I wonder if anyone else encountered the following problem. My home machine is on an ADSL connection, with the ADSL modem functioning as a router and doing address translation. When I connect outside with ssh, it breaks the connection after very small periods of inactivity (2-3 minutes will usually do it) with "Connection reset by peer". I verified that this has nothing to do with autotimeout settings of the shell on the other side. In fact, the login shell and whatever else I ran from it continues running on the other side. I don't experience connection breakage in other TCP connections originating from my machine (e.g. long downloads, telnet).
Googling for information, I found many cases when people complained of this problem and were told to put ProtocolKeepAlives with the value of 30 or so in their ssh config files. The problem is that ProtocolKeepAlives seems to be a debian-only extension (perhaps put there precisely to combat this problem?). So, my question is threefold, I guess: has anyone encountered this problem? can anyone explain why this is happening, in technical terms? is there anything I can do to help it? Many thanks in advance, Anatoly. -- ceci n'est pas un cig -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
